Integrative Aspects of Epithelial Structure and Function

A Tribute To John Phillips

Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology

January 6, 2001


This symposium is being presented in honor of John E. Phillips, who recently retired from the University of British Columbia. John has had a long and distinguished career as a comparative physiologist working on ion transport in insects. He has influenced generations of biologists by studying epithelial structure and function using ultrastructural, microanalytical, electrophysiological, hormonal, and molecular approaches. This symposium will feature talks describing studies on epithelial biology that employ a diversity of techniques, ranging from molecular biology to whole animal performance.

John Hanrahan               McGill University

The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) chloride channel

Simon Lewis             University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 

Extracellular Modulation of Epithelial Permeability

Joan Martin                  University of British Columbia  Advances Through the Insect Hindgut
Thomas Clark               Indiana University, South Bend  Integrative Aspects of Epithelial Transport in Larval Aedes aegypti
Jeffrey Spring      University of Louisiana, Lafayette Excretion in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus: Effects of cAMP on membrane dynamics, cell ultrastructure and secretion
Mary Chamberlin          Ohio University Developmental Changes in Insect Epithelial Ion Transport and Metabolism
Jon Harrison             Arizona State University Renal and Respiratory Mechanisms of Acid-Base
Regulation in Grasshoppers
Marjorie Patrick   University of California, Irvine Salt-lovin' skeeters: The osmoconforming strategy of mosquito larvae

Symposium Organizers: Tim Bradley and Mary Chamberlin